APrf Tim Cubitt
Associate Professor
School of Society and Culture
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Tim Cubitt is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Adelaide University and Deputy Director of the Australian Cybercrime Observatory. Tim’s research focuses on child sexual exploitation and abuse, extremism, and policing. In particular, he examines the dynamics of offending and victimisation, and offender behaviour and organisation, with a focus on technological and financial enablers. He has advised policing agencies and governments across Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the development of detection pathways and prevention strategies for offences involving children and adults across online spaces, and organisational settings.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 - 2026 | Chair, Lower Risk Human Research Ethics Committee | University of Adelaide |
| 2025 - ongoing | Associate Professor | University of Adelaide |
| 2019 - 2025 | Principal Research Analyst | Australian Institute of Criminology |
| 2015 - 2019 | Senior Research Officer | NSW Police Force |
| 2013 - 2015 | Researcher | St. Vincents Hospital Alcohol & Drug Service |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Award | Outstanding Policing Research Award | Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology | Australia | - |
| 2021 | Award | PhD Candidate Award | Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology | Australia | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Sydney University | Australia | PhD | |
| Macquarie University | Australia | Master of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism | |
| UNSW Sydney | Australia | BA (Criminology) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Cubitt, T. (2026). Evidence-Based Detection, Management and Prevention of Police Misconduct. Australia: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI Scopus2 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Cubitt, T. (2024). Using Financial Transaction Data to Analyse, Detect and Disrupt Technologically Facilitated Crime. In L. Huey, & D. Buil-Gil (Eds.), The Crime Data Handbook (pp. 245-259). Bristol University Press. DOI |
| 2020 | Morgan, A., Brown, R., Voce, I., & Cubitt, T. (2020). Organised and transnational crime. In Australian Policing (pp. 315-331). Routledge. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Cubitt, T., & Wolbers, H. (2023). Review of violent extremism risk assessment tools in Division 104 control orders and Division 105A post-sentence orders. Australian Institute of Criminology. |
| 2015 | Ezard, N., Dolan, K., Baldry, E., Burns, L., Day, C., Hodge, S., . . . Mackay, T. (2015). Feasibility of a Managed Alcohol Program (MAP) for Sydney’s homeless. |
| - | Cubitt, T., Morgan, A., Dowling, C., Bricknell, S., & Brown, R. (n.d.). Targeting fixated individuals to prevent intimate partner homicide: Proposing the Domestic Violence Threat Assessment Centre. Australian Institute of Criminology. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Cubitt, T. (2021). The risk assessment inventory: Assessing the future misconduct of operational police officers. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Cubitt, T., Logos, K., & Brewer, R. (2026). The Digital Lives of Adolescents: National Prevalence of Internet, Technology, and AI Use in Australia. DOI |
| 2026 | Cubitt, T., Logos, K., Brewer, R., Mathews, B., Jago, M., & Gannon, C. (2026). Prevalence and disclosure of AI and non-AI online child sexual victimisation: Findings from a national study of Australian adolescents. DOI |
Tim coordinates the following courses:
| Code | Course title |
| CRIM1001 | Introduction to Criminal Justice |
| CRIM3010 | Criminological Research |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Co-Supervisor | Examining the Criminalisation of Climate Change Activism | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mx Ellie Kendall Turner |
| 2026 | Co-Supervisor | Examining the nexus between traditional femininity and national identity with radicalisation of South Australian women into right-wing movements | Master of Research | Master | Full Time | Ms Macy Veronica Hodges |
| 2026 | Co-Supervisor | Crossing the Threshold: Rethinking Service Responses to Coercive Online Violent Extremism in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mrs Emma Kate Gerhardy |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Disaggregating Extreme-Right Ideological Groups: An Australian Analysis | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Aaron Thomas Calbert |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Disaggregating Extreme-Right Ideological Groups: An Australian Analysis | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Aaron Thomas Calbert |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Location | Program | Supervision Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - ongoing | Co-Supervisor | The influence of “bad apples” on police peer networks: A quasi-experimental study of prospective misconduct prevention methods | University of Cambridge | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Morven Brown |
| 2023 - ongoing | Co-Supervisor | Deterring Police Misconduct: A randomised control trial of in-service strategies to reduce misconduct amongst officers with identified risk factors | University of Cambridge | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Paul Tomlinson |
| 2022 - 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Forecasting police misconduct with Machine Learning | University of Cambridge | MSt in Applied Criminology and Police Management | Master | Part Time | Morven Brown |
| Date | Role | Editorial Board Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Board Member | Evidence Base: Criminal Justice Research, Policy & Action | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
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